Spring vehicle-wheel.



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C. F. HENSS.

SPRING VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 1o, 191.1.

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a t 1 t tot 'ws-Piz .tu il it tias e tpeeicetioa ci? Letters Patent. Patented @mi ne., 1li ,19 ilttgth Application tiled. August l0, i911. Serial No. Mwi.

To all who/m, it may concernllc it known that l, @Huisman F. Homes, a'citizen otthe United States, residing at Cincinnati9 1n the county oft' Hamilton and State of @hie have invented new and useA ful lli'nprovenlents in ,Spring Vehicle-v l Wheels, e1 @which the following is a speci lieation. i

My invention relates to vehicle Wheels or more particularly to that class of vehicle wheels known as elastic or sgi-ing wheels.

The objectsv of my invention are as fol flows: 'First To provide a vehicle wheel with aY metal elastic element interposed bel '30 coil et wire. Fig. 3 is a oei with a metal elastic element interposed hetween the tire and telly of the Wheel tor the purpose oi absorbing or counteractmg as innen as nossilole the yelling; and jarring et the vehicle when the wheels run against or "over obstructions in their path. Second. llo

provide a 'ehiole Wheel .with a spiral coil oi:` Wire interposed between the tire and the -.telly of the wheel and so positioned and supported that all port-ions ot the vehicle other than the tire itself, and of course its contents, will he completely, continuously anfl progressively suspended by said coil ot wire longitudinally., and not transversely, ot the coil. Thirtlflo provide :t vehicle Wheel tween the tireancl telly of the wheel for the purpose of dispensing with the use of rulo-r` lier tires :incl thereby reducing.; the Cost of elasticor spring vehicle wheels. Fourth. To provide a vehicle wheel with a leather tire constructed et pieces and scraps of leather cemented anti otherwise hound. together so that the weight of the vehicle will beslsteinetl by the leather eclgewise rather than tlatwise. il accoin ilish these objects ln the manner illustrated 1n the accompanying drawings of which, s

Figure l is a side elevation of a vehicle Wheel provided with :ny improvement with certain parts out away 'in orcler toillustrute other parte. Fig. is a perspective View oi one .oit the lugs that support the spiral gestire View et iuotlication of the lust shown in lis'. .'.h the las; split, lntolialves am. ref een/es the wire inside the laarreleliaped sito port rather than on the outside. Fig. i isma side' elevation of one olf the halves o't'saicl lngi as shown in Fig. anni. intentlefi to illus trate the inainierfin which the coilsol Wire lie in the ooi'ica've grooves, specially lesignetl 'ier there., on the ot sind Qontrol lshaped support. 5 is an enel elevation. of the two halves of said barrel-shaped support, as illustrated inA Fig. 3, and intended to illustrate the union of these two halves and how they are bolted together. G is a perspective view olf a section of the leather tire showing 'the manner in which the Wire that assists in binding the tire to its tire band passes through the Various pieces of which the tire is made. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of one o' the piecesy of leather of which the tire is made, showing the manner in which the piece of leather is slittecl in order to .pass edgewise ont-othe Wire that-assists in binding it. hand. 'the spokes of the Wheel and all the parte tirewartl that accompany anal are attached to it. the cross-section passing through one olf the wire supporting lugs. Fig. 9 is a a pluralit)` of spiral coils of Wire can be eln- Vimprovement to the wheels of the heaviest trucks and machines.

Lilie numerals and like llet-ters' represent like parts in all theillustrations.

Av imlicates the 'hub ot the wheel.

l5 indicates the spokes of the wheel.

C inrlcetes' the telly ot" thewheel.

D indicates the metal the Wheel. i

gripped by the overturned edges ot the telly tire band and in Fig. 2; obscured from View by these m'erturnetl edges. l? 'indicates the tire lug-band which, in Fig. l, hasits iii-turned edges rut away, in order to bring to view the bases of the out.- side set ot' '\\'iresup1' orting lugs.

f 'G indicates' the tire band.- ll indicates the leather tire ot the Wheel. indicates an unslitted. and l' n slittetl, integral section of the leather tire.

indicates the spiral eoil. ol wire.

tlicates another niocliticaon, of my Wire supporting lugs. '.lhe tlilterenee being, in the one modification the bin-rel-shapecl sutigort` is integral and engages the spiral coil of wire on the inside of the coils.v and. in the ther instance it is. lividod into apn'oxt iiiately two equal parts and engages the spiral coil ot wire on the outside oit the coil.

lll indicates one ot' the parts oi' the last the tireA Fig. 8 is u cross-seetlon of one of' E indicates the telly lug-hand which cross-section ot a modification oi" my im-I provenient illustrating' the manner 1n which ployctl in orclerto successfully apply. my

tiie ol the fellyof Sti lt; indicates one modification, ariel lilith,

named modification of my wire-supporting .lugs and is intended to illustrate the manner in which the coils of wire lie in the concave grooves on the inside of the barrel,- 5 shaped supports.

` N indicates the manner in which thectwo parts of my wire-supporting lugs are united and lrmly'bolted together., y

The numerals 1, 2, 8,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 indicate the various wire-supporting lugs that are attached to the tire lug-band, and the numerals' 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and. 20 indicate the various wire-supporting lugs that are attached to the fell lug-band (not all visible in Fig. 1). f

As to the lower case letters, a indicates the base of my -wirefsuppo'rting lugs:

indicates the twisted .body of my wiresupporting lug, Fig. 3., v

c indicates the barrel-shaped support of pue modiiication of my wire-supporting ugs.

d and e indicate opposite projecting points of the. two parts into which the twisted body of one modification of my wire-sup-L porting lugs is divided.

f indicates the circular aperture passing' longitudinally through the barrel-shaped support of one modification of my wire-sup porting lugs.

g indicates the rivet holes in the base of my wire-supporting lugs.

i indicates the in-turned, clamping edges of the tire band. A

z' indicates the lateral parallel grooves cut into the leather strips of which the leather tire is made, which grooves are engaged by the in-turned edges of the tire band.

j indicates two arallel slits inseveral otv the pieces of whic the leather tire is made, by means' of which slits the leather pieces can be run sidewise under, and then edgewise onto the two arallel wires that pass v through the other pieces of-which the leather tire is made.

lc indicates vthe two holes in each of the pieces of which t-he leather tire is made, into which holes two parallel strands of wire pass for the entire distance around the leather tire band.

lindicates the two strands of wire that pass through the holes 7s in the leather strips Z and assist in binding the leather tire to the i tire band. In order to weld t-he opposite ends of these-wires together, .'it is necessary to leave six or eight inches of their ends free of these leather strips. To fill up this va cancy,a suilicient number of slitted pieces Z are run onto these wires in adirection away from the hub ofthe wheel, so that thc lin-slitted portion may be held between the wire and theA tire band. In running these slitted strips onto the Wire, they Vare interspersed among the unslitted' strips, so thatl no two of them come together. The leather.

tire having been in this manner prepared for the tire band, itis pressed onto the tire band and the lateral edges of this band are then overturned ad pressed into the grooves t', by which operation the leather tire is firmly bound to the tire band. l a

m indicates the in-turned edges of the felly tire.

n indicates the wir'e to which is attached the opposite edges of the inurl-fenders o which extend entirely around the wheel and prevent/mud and gravel and other such matter from entering that portion of the wheel occupied by the spiral coil of wire. It is to be noted, however, that these mud-fenders are not by any means absolutely necessary.

y; indicates the holes through which ass the bolts t, of which bolts u indicates ty eir heads and 'u their binding nuts.

r indicates the head and s the binding nut of the bolt g. which' assists bolt t in firmly binding together the two parts of that modification of my wire-supporting lugs illustrated in Figs. 3 and Li.

w indicates the concave grooves cut on the inside of the two parts of that modilication of my wireesupporting lugs illustratcl in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.'. l

ai indicates the holes for bolt gf, which holes are not, from the nature of the case.i diametrically opposite each other but assume -a position in keeping with the spiral nature` of the coil of wire, so that the bolt y when run through these holes extends angling rather than straight across the apertureA jf. 10G

It is to be noted that the bolts Q perform a double purpose-one to bind the two parts L together and thereby bring about asupport of the spiral coil of wire J transversely of the coils of wire, and the other by directly supporting the spiral coil of wiredF longitudinally.

It is to be noted also that, while my improvements give to the vehicle wheel a ver- Y tical vibration, they give to it also a hori- '110 zontal vibration. rl`his last named vibration is brought about when the edge of the tire comes in contact with a stone or other similar obstruction in the road.

A It is to be noted also, in assembling and fixing and securing in posit-ion the parts Til,

li and G and the parts J and K (or L as the case may be), that all this work is done be fore these combined parts are placed on the telly tire D. This having been done, the parts I and l are assembled, the wires Z welded and the pieces I placed-in position and these combined parts pressed onto the tire band G. This'having been done, the parts n ando are placed in position and the lateral edges of the felly tire D and tire band G are iii-turned. This operation .having been performed, all the various'partf--, of my invention are irnl securedt the velly tire l) and the :telly s tally through the airis of the hab A and to Sil vcomes a diiierent point of suspension for the vehicle and its load, This suspei ,p 'other of the lugs ll, l2, i3, ll, l5, i6, i7, lil, "19 and 20, is' asuspending section either by 'spiral coil of wire J from an angle of no It is to be noted that all et these parts of which my invention consists can be applied to any ,automobile or other .vehicle wheel;

Having thus described niy invention by figures andin detail, l will now describe it as a working mechanism.

The line y--jz/ is supposed to pass horizondivide into twoequal parte` the two wiresupporting lugs l and *6, and the wheel is supposed not yet to be placed on the axles of the vehiclen y @opposing the wheel to be placed on the arde of die vehicle and the ve hicleloaded, the aaisiif the huh and all por tions ot the wheel inside of the spiral coil of wire l settle down. ln doing this every one of the lugs l, 2, 3, 5, d, i", 8, 9 and l() he the spiral coii ot wire .lf and is longitudinali and not transverse oi? the coils of which the spiral coil oi wire il" is composed, tion oi* the'wire between one or the other of the lugs ahovementioned and one or the elongation. or compression of the spiral coii of wire, one end of which being attached to one or the other oi.2 the'iirst-mentioned set oi" lugs and the other end of which being attached to one or the other ofthe second. mentioned of lugs, and there is never any' change made asgto the. tact of suspension as the wheel progresses, the only change beingl as to the manner of suspension, or rather as to the angle at which the line of suspension of the weight intersects the cirenlar axis of the spiral coil of wire J. The ain-le of the line of suspension at lug,1 i3 is approximately 90 degrees; at lug l2 it is approximately l5 degrees; and at lug,l il it is approximately nothing. Below the line amy and, eig-the 2O the angle of the line oi .siispensionis approxi-- mately nothing; at lug 19 it is a'iproximately 45 degrees; at lug i8 it is approximately 90. degrees; at lng 17 it is approximately' 45 degrees; at lugl it is approximately nothing; at lug 15 it is approximately' nothing; and at lug lll it is approximately 45 degrees. The greatest angle ,of suspension iis/90 degrees and the smallest is nothine. ln the progression of the Wheel, every lug'7 whether of one set or the other, at two. different times in every revolution of the-wheel pass through every possible angular relation o' the line of suspension to the axis of the degrees to that of 9G, and twice also from an angle of 90 degrees to that of nothing, so that at every moment in the progress of the wheel there is neither inaction nor overaction of'any luter or any `coil ol' wire. ln other words, at ."rcry revolution of the I wheel, every lug is a helper of every other' lug', and every coil of wire is a helperof` every other coil of Wire, in the suspension of the vehicle and its weight.

In addition to the evident` spring of the spiral coil of wire J, the leather tire H also aiords aV small degree of elasticity. The cumulative elasticity of the two members taken together affords a most excellent spring for both thevehicle and the vehicle and its load.

,Having thus described my invention by figures, in detail and as a working mechanisin, what` l claim 4anddesire to have patis:-- v

l. lo vehicle wheel, provided with a telly, and a floating rim separate from the fel i, ah annular coiled spring intermediate the .y and rim, with the plane tof the coils radially disposed, and a series of lugs sel pressure may be applied between the lugs,

and the tendency of the coil to buckle hetween the points oi suspension is avoided.

' ily, and a floating rim separate from the Jn annular coiled spring intermediate and rim, with the plane of the coils ,rally disposed, and a series oi lugs secured alternately to Jthe folly and the rim and proiecting radially toward leach other for supporting' the spring free from the telly and the rim, each of said lugs'engaging said spring circumferentially of Aits coils, said lugs being divided and embracing the coil from the outside. v y

S. lin a vehicle wheel, providedwith a telly, and a Floating rim separate from the telly, an annular coiled spring intermediate the telly and rim, with the plane of the coils radially disposed, and a series of lugs se cured alternately to the :telly and the` rim and projecting radially toward each other for supporting the spring free Y'from the telly and therim, each of said lugs engaging said spring ciroumierentially of its coils, said lugs beingdivided and formed with screw 'threads on the inner surface, with means for lockingr the parts together to provide a screwthreaded socket for the coil.

ln testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

YoHinsTIAN F. HEINSS.

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